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I ( THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : THURSDAY. APKIL 7 , 1887. Tim DAILY BEE , PUPLISHED EVERY MORNING. TrrtMfl OF Rtmscnr rrto * * : Dulls" ( Mornl.u Kdltlon ) Including Sunday II. r. Ono Ytnr . $10 01 For Six Months . 6 00 I'orTlm'o Months . . . . . . . 2 W The Oinahn Sunclny llv.K , nmlloil to nnjr g , Ono Year. . , . 200 OMAHA Omen. No. BU ASII 9rt ! FAUVAM < ? Tnr.rr. New VIIIIK cirricr. HIIOM t. ' > , Tmmrsr. limi msn. WA3IU.NUTOX OlTICl : , . . All communications rotating to nnwn nndnll- torlul mntlor MiouM bo tul'lrossoU ' to thu Em- TUll Of HIE Ilr.E. All business letters anil rornlttnnans phould lin Milrossod to THIS HER I'UHI.IHHINO COMPANY , OMMIA. Drafts. ehncks and postnfTlco order * lo bo iiiado paj a bio to the ordtr ol thu com pttuy , IHE BEE PueusuiRTcipw , PROPRIETORS , E. KOSEWATKU. KniTon. THE PAlhY DEB. Bworn Statement of Circulation. State ot Nebraska , I , . . 8.8. f County of UoiiRla-s. f ( > w > . II. Trschuck , secretary of The Hoe Publishing company , does mricmnly swear that the actual circulation ot Iho Dallv Hen lor the week ending April 1st , IbbT , was as follows : Baturdav. Mar.20 . 14.050 8iindav.Mnr.S7 . ta. ) Alonda'y. Mar.'JS . 1M1 * " ' Tuesday , Alar , uu. . U.VM Wednesday. Mar. . " . M.in Thursday , Mnr. 31 . 14.t5 : ; Filuay , April 1 . .UXW Avrraco . I4-4"17 llKO. V , 'I 78CIIUfK. Subscribed and sworn touefoio mo this ' .M day of Ajirll A. D. , ISW. N. 1KKir , , [ SEA LI .Notary Public. Gco. H. 'L'zfichnclc , hclnc lirwt duly sworn , deposes and says that ho H hecrelary of The Bee Publishing company , that the actual av- craee dally circulation of the Dally lice for thcmonth ot March , lb J , 11,537 copies ; for April , 18hC , 1U,1U1 copies : forlor Maj , ISbO , 1'J- tW copies ; for .June , IbMJ , l'Jsys copies for July , 18W5 , 12,314 copies ; foi Aticust , isvo. 12,40-1 copies ; for .September. 18M1 , 13.0 ! 0 copies ; for October , IhWj. 12,05'J copies ; for No\eml > f > r , ItW ) , 13,3-18 copies ; tor December. 1880. 13,2:17 : conies ; for .lantiarv. U > 87. 10'joo copies ; for February , 1887 , 11,1th copies. GKO. U. 'l73cnurK. Subscribed and sworn to before mo this Oth day of Mmcli , A. I ) . 18b7. fSEAL. I N. 1' . FKII , . Notary Public. MAYOU Horn is willing to compliment Clnirley Ilrown witli a tiiiuler of tlio nomination for mayor , but ho wants llio nomination himself. Tin ; now school board reminds us just at present of the ten litllo "Injuns" sil ting ou the fonco. Tlio ( { iicstion is , how many will drop oft' withiu the next sixty days ? Tun New York World says that , for a man who had no reputation as a national iinancier , Mr. Manning turned out woll. That m so , but ho sliuold have turned out sooner than ho did. Tin : Chinese companies now have 15,000 sots of celestial bones awaiting shipment to tlio lloworyland. Tlio mongolians uro Bent back too late. There is room enough hero for all after they arc dead. Tnu now war department rules at Yellowstone - lowstono I'.irk will , it is thought , prevent the frivolous practice of boiling shirts in thegoysors. It is claimed that b'ilcd shirts jar on llio picturesque eil'ect of tlic whole Yellowstone icgiou. BUFFALO DILI , is not in the state of Nebraska - braska , yet ho still is on the State of Nebraska braska , a steamship , a sailing away to flwcotwaler lands where sqvmws , cowboys - boys , greasers , buflfalo , oik and bronchos arc sights to bo scon. Show 'om to 'em William , and charge 'oru well for it. Kx-FniK Uincr IJuxLEit is said to besotting setting bis pins for chief of police. Hut lor prides himself more on his record n ; city marshal than on his reputation 11 ; fire chief. Mr. Butler wont out gunning after a colored man once , and bravclj shot him down in an open Held. THE late railroad commissioner , win has fattened on republican patronage foi moro than'twenty years , bolted the regu lar republican nominee for mayor a' ' Lincoln , and helped to elect a straigh democrat. Mr. Gere's disloyalty to parti is not only the basest of treason but tin meanest of ingratitude. A NK.YT httlo scheme to vindicate Mr llussull , hatched by his law partner Iloxlo , was nipped in the bud by the citi /ens of Schuylor on very short notice Kusscll was to have boon made mayor o Schuylor to show the esteem in which hi is hold at homo , llussoll was not vindi catcd , howovor. Another nud bette man was elected. THE iuter-stato commerce law hit Bomo rank abuses hard. This may b gathered from the early attacks on tin commissioners. Already two of them Judge CoDloy. and Captain Bragg , Imv lolt it necessary to deny that they Iran clod on passes after the 1st of April , who : all other deadheads wore refused fro passage. It is well when a law is so jus that its enemies must attack its oxecutoi rather than the measure itsolf. THE late liliza Woathorsby was pertiap the only ono of the "British blondes who after the decadence of the tinai tableaux and the "Field of tlio Cloth o Gold" variety show , managed to calc on in a regular dramatic way. Who she came over , she was ono of L.ydl Thompson's best looking women. Tli outllt comprised Thompson , Bland , Mail ham , and Weath'irsby , and it did a gre : deal to rim Shakespeare to cover and d < tcriorato the moral character of Iho.slagi It was the beginning of the reign < "light" entertainments. Kviu : since the close of tno w av , tl secretary of the navy has boon u sort ( llfth wheel , a ruler of the deep blno so ; who wont down thu Potomac in a di patch-bout with his cousins and his aunt The late scandal touching the outbron of fever at Panama , whore u war shl was stationed to accommodate a lai Whom the secretary had met at a dinnc is of a pit'co with the height to whit empty and undeserved power is alwa ; carried in the rod tapn ofllces at the ca | tol. An ensign who had nearly died Panama whllo the fever raged , wns tak < to the hospital at Now York , ai though his wife wcro only three houi ndo awuy , bo was not permitted to j homo to be nursed back to a fair degr of strength. And still , to oblige a ba toriug lady , who , with her fan , probat dared the sncretary to think of disoba mi ; lior , n shipful of those bravo cohola and sailors wcro compelled lo Ho in a h bather until thcro was scarcely a w < on board. Better to have no su The Vetoed fjlbcl Mill. Governor Thnyor'a veto of the llbol bill will incot the approval of reputable news papers of all parties. Tlio veto message lllcd In the oflico of the socrct.iry of state with the bill commend * if-olf to fair- minded men in or out ot the newspaper profession as a clear and comprehensive enunciation of sound principles applied to the abii o of the license which the pre s enjoys under our form of govern ment , 'iho llbol laws on our statute books are ample for the protection of the reputation of ovcry cltircn , whether humble or prominent. They make the writer or publisher of any libel responsi ble for civil damages to reputa tion. Our ciimin.il cede also makes libel an indictable misdemeanor punishable by line and imprisonment. To go beyond that and make thn pub lisher or editor of any paper liable to prosecution for civil damages In any county where his paper may regularly or accidentally circulate , whether personal service thcro c.ui bo had upon him or not , would not servo the ends of justice. If the publishers and editors were con stantly in da-igor of annoying and costly lawsuits on tnimpcd-up charges of libel , the risk of conducting a newspaper would become too hazardous for any prudent man. It is uTfact well kno\vn to publish ers that in nearly every instance llbclous articles are inspired by interested parties who'o voracity is not questioned by re porters , or Und their way into the news papers through careless or malicious cor respondents. Nine times out of ten the editor has not seen those libclous articles until they appear in his paper. It would bo utterly impossible for any editor or publisher to ascertain the truth or falsity of every report that reaches his paper through hund reds of channels at homo and abioad Now while publishers and editors arc properly accountable for tins damage any innocent person may sustain m his icputaliou or business by a libellous pub lication , it would 1)0 iirnca'-onable to make libels actionable without personal service whom or tlio paper chculatos and let the party who claims to 1m c been hbollcd choobo the county in which he can place the publisher at the greatest disadvantage. The cfTect of such a law could only -lorvc to make bad men bold and doliant and suppress the truth con cerning them when the public interest would be served by their exposure No matter ho\v fearless and outspoken a newspaper might be , the constant menace of costly prosecution and perse cution would prove a bar to fieo oxer- eiso of the liberty of the pie s and an in centive to rascality in the conduct of public affairs. Half of the rogues in this country are kept in wholesome check by the dread of exposure. Election Deductions. Thcro are some interesting and instruc tive deductions to bo drawn from the spring elections. Usually not much at tention is given to the results of thc.se municipal contests , which arc assumed to bo largely inlluonccd by local consider ations and the personality of candidates. But it is every year becoming moro ap parent that the cities are getting to be tlio storm-centers of our oolitical system , and therefore claim a steadily increasing attention fiom our students of politics. It is in the cities that the political ma chinery reaches its fullest developments. It Is there that the elements and con ditions of political agitation are most nu merous and active. It is there that party lines arc most vulnerable to the assaults of now political forces. The rural popu- lalionc are more steadfast than those oi the cities. They do not yield readily to new influences. This was striking ! } shown in the February elections in Ger many , in which the government secured the greater part of its support from the country districts , most of the larger cities electing candidates opposed to it. The now political forces had been more sue' cessful in the municipal than in the rural districts. Of tlio elections just held , that at Chicago was perhaps the most important in its political bearings. It resulted in f clean republican victory , which , besides its value in transferring the administra tion of the city to iioucst and capable handa , demonstrated that the rcpublicar forces thcro are compact and well or ganued. There is reason to believe that had the democracy not been hopelessly demoralized in tlio campaign by reasoi of the remarkable course of Carter liar risen , tlio result would have been tin same. The time had come fora repudia tion of the dishonest and incapable demo cratic machine. No ono saw that mon clearly than the shrewd politician when the machine insisted upon reuominnt'm ; for mayor. But a hardly loss intercstin ; feature of the result , in its political sug gestiveiu'ss , is presented in the increase ! labor vote This indeed was not so grca as some of thu moro sanguine labor lead ers had predicted , but it is sufliciontl ; marked to command attention as furthc evidence of the advancing power of thi now force In our politics. A party tha can cast nearly twenty-three ttious.uii votes in the city ol Chicago , with condl tions against it moro than ordinal ily hos tile , makes a claim to consideration whicl the old parties must respect. The election at Cincinnati also pre sunted interesting results , duo to cause somnvrhat similar to those which opo rateil at Chicago. The democracy of th Ohio city had become obnoxious b , reason of many and gieat abuses , am met with deserved repudiation. An hero again the succes3ful republics : f found itsmobt formidable opponent into labor party. The labor vote wa * consii orably larger than the democratic , an very little less than the republieai Showing In this instance that it ha drawn from both parties , but main ! from the democrats. In Cleveland ( a n publican city on a straight issue bctweo llio old parties ) , the democrats were sui cessful by a large majority , due to tli support of the labor vote. There was n labor ticket in the Held , and the republ can organ in that city having antagi ni/ed the oignns/cd labor , most of thi vote went to the democrats. On th other hand , at Dubuque , a democrat stronghold , the entire labor ticket w : elected , while at Milwaukee and Clbv land tlio labor vote showed great ar growing strength. Thn lu son of thi so elections is 01 cournglng to the republicans. It shot the pr.rty generally to bo in e rMleut form , with no appare dislntogratlncr tendencies. On tl other hand the results demonstrate widespread democratic dcuioralizatlo which is especially renwkablo in vlo of the fuct that & democratic national a mlnlstrtition , with vast patronage , is but half through with its term. But the vital fact to which the student of politics , ns well as the practical politician , must ad dress his thoughtful consideration is the evidence of the gro-ving strength of that new force in our politics the party of labor. Where this is likely to bo found , and what it m.iy possibly do next year , aic questions that ha\o a serious import for the old parties. A nnllrt.gno Itnpiinllcnn Victory. The election of Mr. Saw.vcr as mayor of Lincoln is hailed as a glorious victory by the rallroguo republicans at the capi tal city. Mr. Sawyer Is a square-toed democrat from awny-back , and would re sent the intimation that ho had one drop of republican blood in his political make up. The city of Lincoln is republican all the way from five hundred to fifteen hundred majority. Mr lawyer's opponent , the regular re publican candidate , was Hon. K. P. Hog- gen , who for many years had been in public life , and during the past four years had filled the honorable and responsible position of secretary of state. Mr. Hog- gen is a ( Jrand Army veteran and always has been an uncompromising repub lican. But Mr. Hogccn , in the faithful discharge of his duty to the state , had re fused to prostitute himself to the base ends of the railrogue machine. Ho dismissed Charles H. Gere from the railroad commission and ap pointed in his place Judge O. P. Mason , lie followed up this very offensive parti- /.ansliip by a point blank refusal to award tlio legislative printing to Gere's job printing concern at an extravagant price and saved the. state $10,000 by in- yitmg new printing bids. Such con duct on the part of Mr. Hoggcn wns a surprise to the railrogno clan. Falling to defeat him in the republican conven tion , they organi/cd a bolt , and turned the city government over lo the demo crats. This is not the first time that the po litical Pharisees , who pride themselves on being stalwaits , have betrayed their party and delivered it over to its political enemy The san'o breed of republicans supported James E. Uoyd , the Nebraska member of the national democratic com mittee , against tlio regular republican candidate for mayor ot Omaha two years ago. ago.That famous victory in Omaha has its counterpart at Lincoln. The only differ ence is that the railiogue stalwarts , who always pr.Ue about their lo\c for com rades in amid , have defeated an old sol dier for no other reason than that ho could not be corrupted or made the tool of jobbcis and public printing thieves. The Huslnc.HH View Of It. Because this paper has scon lit to dis cuss , the city water supply trouble from an impartial and common sun so stand point , the syndicate sheet , formerly owned by Dr. Miller , makes a fling at the Bii : : as the organ of the waterworks monopoly. It is hardly necessary to re fute this silly innuendo. Our views of the situation wcro inspired by no out side influence. No responsible person will dare charge collusion on our part with the waterworks company or any other public corporation. As a mat ter of fact nobody connected with the water company has been in this office within the past month , and no conference or interview has been had between the editor of this paper and any official or employe of the water company in or out of the HIK : office. There is about much sense in asking the council to cancel the contract MU ! buy out the waterworks at this ti mo as there is in the scheme to organuo a grain exchange in Omaha. The project is not feasible. We have no money in the treas ury to buy out tlio waterworks ; much less to build new works. It would take half a million dollars to buy out the present plant , and another half million to build a new one. The company may or may not be in good faith in its promise to construe ! new works near Florence this season , If it is merely trying to ] stavel oft' the needed improvement in our water sup ply , the council has a remedy. It car hold back tlio hydrant rentals or bogir suit for damages against tlio company for failing to comply with the provision ; of its contract. Prohibition Defeated in Michigan. The latest figures place the majority against the prohibitory amendment ii Michigan at 5,000. , An analysis of tin vote will undoubtedly show that this ma jority iiis : boon obtained in Iho towns but the significance of the result is no thereby much lessened. The defeat o prohibition is duo to experience undo that system and under the prevailing tr : system. Stalistics collected by Mr. D liethuno Duflield , a distinguished juris of Michigan , show that under the prohi bition law the state had in 1874 , 0,411 sn loons , or ono for every 207 inhabitants In May , 1875 , a tax law was passed whicl required every retail seller of spintuou or mixed liquors to pay an annual tax n ? 300 , ovcry wholesale dealer $000 , am every ictail or wholesale dealer in mal liquors alone f OO. In 1870 , ono yea after the law wont into efl'ecl , Iho return showed that the number of dealers ha been reduced from 0,111 to 1,807 , a decrease crease of 1,577. In 1877 the retur showed only B/.iOG dealers , a further n ductlon of 871. In 1833 , six years aftc the law had gone info effect , there wer in the state only 0,1UI saloons , or on to every 53G of the population. Her was a decrease since 1874 of 2,033 saloons nearly 50 per cent. This had been ac complished in spite of the increase c population. If the ratio of saloons t population'which cxisled under llio pr < liibltion law had continued under the ta luw , the slate would now have 10OC saloons instead of 5,000 , while tli public treasury would have been di prived of the moro than the eight mlllio dollars of revenue which has been co lected under the tax taw. Such stnbbor facts , suuplemcnlcd by Iho similar expo rieuce of oilier states , are the iutluonc which accounts for the defeat of prohlb tion in Michigan. This constitutes weighty argument of general applic ; Chicago's Inflicted Official ? , The trials of the late city boodlors wl begin next Wednesday. Chicago hi three systems of local government , towi city , and county. There are three ton administrators , and the county govorr the city people as a part of its jnrisdi tion. The frauds recently discovorc appertain to the county govornmon which resides in a board of fifteen cor missioners. Seven fommissjoncrs , six e.x-comniisslonorsf the wardens of the hospital and the. . Insane asvlum , and a dozen contractors and minor employes await trial. * i The county has Jour great money- spending centres , HID hospital , the in sane asylum , the cijurt house , and the jail , or criminal cojurt building. The thefts when investlfcsfted wcro In the first three institutions. The jail , usually a subject of much suspicion by grand jur ies , goes scot-free. The social compaclj in a city of 700.000 inhabitants is such a comnlex thing that , to understand it , a citi/on must give his whole time to its study. In other words , he must "go into politics. " If he be a business man , this at once hurts his credit and interferes with his regular en gagements. This leaves the field , except having eras of re-action from frauds.Jfreo to the class of men who so often prove to be boodlers. The heavy tax-payer regu lates the business of running all the city governments to those who have a taste for it , and for whom there is profit and honor or dishonor and boodle. The county hospital at Chicago is said to be one of the largest public charities in the world. Its Indicted warden is named McGanglc , and was formerly chief of police In tlio city government. Tin ) expenditures in this institution were known to bo enormously excessive , and the complaints of patient3 grew rather than diminished with the rapidly in creasing appropriations. But It was the paintinir of the court house that brought about the collapse of the robbers' organ ization. For the job of coating the out side surface of this building , Iho ring , or majority of the board of commissioners , audhod county warrants for $100,000. In its audacity this charge outdoes any one item in the forays made by Boss Tweed's New York ring , fifteen years before. Although the public prosecutor at Chicago cage is a democrat , and deserves great credit for his able and honest course , which credit his party may take to itself , still most of the alleged thieves are also democrats , and to the tenor and demor alization of these manipulators of the bourbon machine may be attributed the complete disintegration of the city dem ocratic organization last Tuesday , when no ticket was presented for the suffrages of the party. This ought to create a sen sation at the White House. The honest tax-payors of Chicago , and the friends of good government every where , arc to bo congratulated on the sharp hunt which has ended in .so many arrests. To lie sure the tricks will piovo no less costly than the operations of the boodlers , but no one hates to go to state's piison worse"than the prosperous boodlor. Doubtless the business of run ning the public works will soon drift back to the element , which congregates in bar rooms , but ( hut trust will seek ad ministrators , who , nsa , result of the pun ishment of their whilom friends , will be tar more cautious in their financial op erations. About City Halls. The talk about the proposed city hall being too small for the Omaha of the future is all bosh. 'Tho building is to bo fiye stories and basement , 18ixl20 feet. It is planned to accommodate the wants of a city ot 250,009 people. If Omaha ever grows to be moro populous the re moval of the public library and police station will afford ample accommodation for any additional demand which may spring up by reason ot further growth. City halls nowadays are purely office buildings for the use of citv officials and employes. They are not intended to be p iblic halls for mass meetings and have no need of lawns and paiks for wet nurses , bibles and tramps to air and sun themselves upon. Wo can name half a do7.cn cities of larger population than Omaha will have for many years , whose city halls do not provide as much office room as the plans adopted for Omaha. In fact the city hall of Now York is not as largo and does not con tain as much office room us tlio proposed city hall will have when completed. WHY Austria-Hungary waited two years before sh'o aupointed.a representa tive in Washington cannot bo guessed. Had his imperial and royal apostolic majesty Fran/ Josef chosen to stay dis pleased over the Keily incident , he could have done so , and the United States would have saved $12.000 a year and the expenses of a legation. However , the comity of great people should not bo dis turbed for the sake of a few thousand dollars or a liltle wounding of our pride. Mr. Keily was shamfully Ircaled , but wo can afford to give the chevalier Sehmit von Tavcra a cordial welcome. Mean while there is a line place open at a lliousand a monlh near llio proudest- court in Christendom , as Mr. Kasson can tell you , that glow so distinguished in the presence of the throne. Who will take it ? Do not hang back so , demo cratic slatcsmen. You aie nil a good- mannered lot. IT is a very grave question now among our couucilnien which ward Mike Mcauy should be allowed to live in Why not cut out a ward exclusively foi Mike Meany and Put Garvey , and lei both of them come in as members of tlu now council. Hy all means , give Mikt the Tenth ward. Ho will see lo it thai nc planks are loose in his ward. JOHN SAHI.UU as one of Iho police com mission would make adandy. Ho woult have an oil room opened exclusively foi Iho use of Iho police and lire depart menls. Wo nominate Fiauk Walterfui chief of the lire deparlmeiit. He alway : carries a rod lantern in front of him. pROMTNKvFVKKso.Ns. c Tennyson's latest alleged poetical PIoduc tion may bo justly spoken ut as a r.ue ode- that is to say , not well douo. Emma \Yi-athcrsby ( ioodwln left an cstati estimated to hoortii 550,000 , She be rjueathcd It all to her husband except Sb.OOO w hlch KOOS to her mother. Colonel Frank James , formerly of St Louis , has secured employment and scttlec In Denlson , Tex. Alter his excltlmjcnrcc the diilncss of life In St. Louis wearied him Miss Frances E. Wlllaul Is to bo connectei with the Key. Jo Cook In the publication o the new prohibition journal. Miss Wlllan Is expected to furnish the Intellectual mote and Mr. Cook the lung power. Mr. Sol Smith llussell Is Koine to settle Ii Minneapolis with his lather-ln-law , Mi William T. Adams. The latter , best knowi as "Oliver Optic. " U now nearly sixty j ear old , and has begun to lese health. President Cleveland Is said to be nervous ! sensitive on the subject of funerals , and thi Is Riven as tan reason why "the pressure o public business1' ' always prevents hU attend- Ini ? the obiOUlos ( of distinguished muiu Senator Jones of Nevada , Is ntaln inpldly pushing to the front rank uf millionaires , Ills mines In Ala kn are proving much rlcliei than heretofore represented , and the stock is now paying a dividend of OOdper cent a year. Professor Ulchard A. Proctor , the eminent scientist and astionomcr , Is hereafter to be a citizen of Pluildn , having pmchnscd a tract oflatul on Ornniro Lakw. Ho says the lower atmosphere of Floilda Is so clear that con stellations stand out \\omlcrfnl brilliancy. Miss Carrie Hartlett , formerly city editor ot tlio Oshkosh Times , now occupies the pul pit ot the First Unitarian church at St. Paul. Her manner Is described as earnest and pleasing and her diction finished un doubtedly the result of tier newspaper edu cation. _ . _ _ Why They Drink. There arc a gicat many things that cause a man to drink , and ono of them Is thlist. Camimlcn Ammunition. Kentucky has an overplus of 42,000.000 gallons lens of whNky , and her people are pray in i : foi1 the opening of the democratic national campaign. Tennyson's Jutillco Ode. W. Lniit'GlnlH-Dcmoant. "Carmen Saeculare1' Is the title of Tenny son's jubilee ode to Quean Victoria. Some of tlio latest efforts of the ooet laureate have been peculiar II not stilctly enatlc , but on tills occasion he appeals to have started out with a deliberate Intention of Iguoilnt : the lilies nlike ol common sensoaud ilijthm. That ho succeeded Is Ideiiccd by the follow- hiK lines which make up the whole ot tlio ninth staiua : FUty years of ever broadenlnsc commeice , Fifty jears of ever liilirhteiiln science , Fitly > ems of ever widening empire. What would be said ot an anonymous or uukiiimir poet who wasted Ink mid paper thus iceUlcsslyV Suiely the poet l.uneato Is not gionini ; baicnstie In his old litre. To Critics. 2 lit Centum. When 1 was seventeen 1 heard I'rnm each consorioustoiiRiie : "I'd not do that If I were won ; i on see j ou 10 rattier yotim ; . " Now that I number forty jcais , I'm quite as often told OF this 01 Hint I Minuldu't do Because I'm quite too old. O eat pine ; world 1 If there's an aije Where youth and manhood keep An equal poise , alas ! 1 must Have passed It tu my sleep. SXATJ2 AN1 > TISUUITOIIY. Nebraska .lotting ! ) . Ainsworth juyeniles have organized a brass band. Rubber hose wcro fashionable in Plaits- mouth yesterday. L Platlsmouth and Nebraska City have voted /or the bob-tail street car. Grand Island's cannery will rest on Iho biggest foundation west of the Missouri. It is estimaled that $90,003 are spent innually in Fremont in stimulating irri gation. The Plaltsmouih Herald has been sold by Robert H. Windham to A. U. Knolls , of Council Bluff's. The school census of Fremont shows 1(10 ( children of school ago , an increase of , 180 over last year. The grading force of the Kansas City B Omaha road is approaching York. The ails are laid to Sutlon. One hundred homes : are going up in Nebraska City and one hundred more are needed to meet the demand. York is enjoying : i healthy growth. A argo number of stores and residences are ; omg up as well as property values. The Wabash system is again flirting wilh Nebraska City and threatening to make a call. Her antics are dohiflve. At present the roaa is engaging in calling on "my uncle , " exclusively. The real cslate transfers in Hastings since the first of the year foot up the snug sum of $2,271,020. This is more than double the business of 188(5 ( , and shows that tlio metropolis is coming to tlio front in fine shape. Tno "beardless cubs" of the newspa pers have their revenge in Iho veto of Thurston county. Governor Thayer mingled with the cubs in recent years and knows that the pen is mightier than the widest mouth. Tlio newspaper rustlers continue pioneering neering new towus and counties. The Jefferson County Record , published at Endicott , by Frank T. Pierce , and the South Sioux City News , published at Covington , by J. L. Kroesen , are among the latest spokes in the wheels ot pro gress. John Pohlman was drowned in the Platte river near Grand Inland last Sun day. Ho had shot a wild gooso. waded out in the stream lo gel it , and disap peared in deep water. Ho leaves a wife and lour children in destitute circum stances. . The list of improvements under way in Nebraska , towns is growing to such pro portions that it is almost impossible to keep it ii. sight. This accounts for tlio omission ot McCook of the list ot cities having waterwoiks in operation , making a total of seventeen plants in the state. When the ongcs of old divided life into three epochs they did not foresee the dis- aslious consequences ot modern domes- lie lite. No period in man's existence so impresses him with Ins utter helpless ness us when he finds two suspender but tons gone and his wife down town exam ining Kstor bonnels. Hastings is determined to have all the railroads in sight if it takes the last dollar. The people have decided to give a bonus of $00,000 lo Iho KJkhorn Valley exlen sion , and a proposition lo vote $125,000 in bonds lo llio "Pacific Railway Com pany of Nebraska , " will bo submitted to the electors of Adams county this month. It will doubtless carry. The Nebraska City News say.s' that legal lightning is about to strike several prominent and immaculateciliens , for connection with a corruption fund and other dubious transactions during the rci < rn of Duke Simpson in the tieasury of Utoo county. The grand jury is in- vesligaling the mailer and a sensation is promised. Tlio story comes by way of PliitUmouth that a p-irty of ginders arc at work in Cass county , just south of OrcopulLs , and working-duo south. The people up llui river are divided in opinion HS In whether they are mi AtcKiion , Topcka iV Santa Fo force , headed for Nebraska City , or ono in tlio interestof theOmahii & Southwestern. The survey of the lat' tor road is not yet complete , it not even being decided yet whether it will strike Palmyra or Syracuse , in Otoe county. Inwa ItomH. A creamery supply factory 1ms been started in Dubuqiie. The electric light and gas companies of Davenport have consolidated. The old glucose works in DCS Moine ; is to bo turned Into a starch faclory. Henry George's lecture In Hurllngtou Saturday night was a financial failure. The comer stone of the .soldiers' home at Marshalltown will be laid on Iho ! i2i lust. lust.There There wore forty-four deaths am sixty-mill ! births in Davcnpoit las ! month. There have been 15,814 porkers killed a ! Cedar Rapids so far this season , ugains 13,423 the corresponding period last year The plans for the now Turner hall in Davenport have been completed , Th < mlldlng will bo 150x1-10 , throe stones high , and will cost $70,000. Pension Agent Lake at Dos Molncs has 15,000 , to pay Mexican war pensions , It R estimated that a Hit of 5OJ ( names \\lll cover the DCS Molncs agency. Some time ago a young man killed ilmself at Columbus Junction because ils girl went back on him. Last week a nurrled woman of that place , AS hose luis- land had gone back on her on account of the same girl , met her on the depot ilatform and ' ttowed the planks with uit-lirottii hair snd email dabs of blood. L'ho newspapers up along thn line are vailing for the next tragedy of the series. Dakota. Governor Chinch has proclaimed tliu 5lh of May arbor day. Tlio vast shale beds around Jamestown contain an excellent article to manufact- ire into pottery , and industries in that direction are much talked of. North Dakota has as many newspapers is the five territories of Idaho , Wyoming , Jtah , Arizona and Nosv Mexico com- ) inod , and as many as the two torritor- es of Montana and Washington. A Redlleld man has invented a straw Hirncr which , when filled , will hold a steady fire from six lo ten hours. It is claimed that it will heat three rooms of a moderate si/.ed house in the coldest weather. The excavation being made at Sioux i-'alls for the cracker factory is m a solid ock. Outside of the rock necessary for the foundation walls of the building , there will bo BOO cords of stone left , and all out of the cellar. A Deadwood miner who visited Omaha luring thd flood , returned homo with the yarn that the smelting works wcro do- uged with water anil practically idle , The I ) . M. evidently imbibed too freely and lot his imagination run to wet goods. \ \ youiing. Cheyonncso are rolling on the waves of i real estate boom. Several Nebraskans mvo invested in Magic City earth. The new Union Pacific depot in Chey enne is enclosed. It will be ready for oc cupancy by July and will cost ? 75,000. Sufficient stock lias been subscribed to warrant tlio belief that Laramie will have a glassworks in operation before tiio sea son clo-es. Tim plant will cost 150,000. , Thn Union Pacific has decided to build a new line fiom Laramie to moot the Col orado Western line from Denver , under title of Union Pacific i\s Colorado West ern railway. A company has been formed with a capital of $0,000,000. The boat d of penitentiary commission ers has decided to distribute convicts around among the county jails until a proper building is erected. The terri torial convicts have been banished from the penitentiaries of Nebraska and Illi nois , wiiere their labor was parcelled out among prison contractors. This is one of the pleasing results of organi/cd free labor. Guiding on the Cheyenne & Northern is now in progress between the end of the track and section 120 , where the work at present teiinmates in the Plattc canon. It is not now expected that the work of tracklaying over this uncompleted portion will be commenced until the early part of June , for the reason that it will be necessary to give the bridge builders a big start so that they may keep aiiead of the other forces. Colorado. Every department of the steel and iron woiks at Pueblo is running full time. It is feared that the workings of the alien law will diminish sales of mines to foreigners. llio Denver Republican confesses that Omaha is several laps ahead of the Colorado rado capital. If one kept account of the now towns springing up in eastern Colorado ho would need lo make a new geography every day. There is now ono continued line of agricultural claims from the mountains eastward into Nebraska , over it route which , three or four years ago , was con sidered an arid region. The intelligent , deliberations of the leg islature , just ended , were a magnificent success , from n railroad standpoint. The senate , like its Nebraska neighbor , was a wall of metallic rocks against which pro ducers and shippers thumped in vain for relief. LAID AWAY AT RKST. The Funeral of Patrick O'Grady Vcs- tcrilay Morn Ing. The funeral of Patrick O'Grady , the young fireman who was fatahy in jured at Valley , was ono of the largest which has been attended in this city mir ing the past year and ono of the most im posing. At 9.JO : o'clock vc&tcrdny morn ing the Ancient Order of Hibernians in full regalia , preceded by the society band , marched from Cunningham hall to the late residence of the deceased where the preliminary son ices were hold. The procession thence proceeded to St. Philomona's cathedral and there the requiem Inch mais was said by Rov. Father McCarthy , who also preached n verv appropriate sermon. The cathedral was crowded with the relatives , members of the An cient Order of Hibernians and many friends of the deceased. The casket was covered with floral tributes , among which was a magnificent picco from the loco motive liiomonnnd a shield piece nearly four feet in height fiom the Brennan brothers , which bore the inscription in colored flowers "Last Token of Respect to our Friend , Pat. " The procession from the cathedral tollolv Sopulchro cemetery wheiotho interment occurred , was nearly a half mile in lencth. Fully one hundred members of the A. O. H , wuro in lino. The flowers which could not bo placed in the hoarse nearly Filled another carnage . On the casKet reposed the re galia of the deceased as a member of the Hihurnians. The pall bearers were John Rush , T. F. Brennan , Dominick Mulhern , John Ward , B. J. Brennan and Thomas Me- Govern. C. W. Jeill ? : iCo. . hare purchased the well known commission business of Feu- on iV Cole ami will continue the busi- nesi at the old iitantl. Thu now pro- prietorn are young Omaha iiinn who are well acquainted and held in the highest reg'ird in commercial circles They will undoubtedly make busiaoss "hum" for Ii oy tire busy bees. A \\Vitfirn Hird of Kvll OIIIIMI. Chicago Ti iliunu : 'J hn "devil hawk" of Arizona is a i.iro bird aim an interesting one. Ho is dese-iibed as Having lomark- nbly handsome plumage , but u scry ugly himd. His talon- , arc long and strong , and his beak is almost ns sharp its a needle anil very powerful. The bird , but for his head , when on the wing would pass for a pigeon When seeking his prey ho plays pigeon , and flies in among thorn unnoticed on account of Ins similarity mid easily captures what ho wants. Ho is tlio pictuie of grace and beauty and .speed. It is estimated that thcro are not more thin a do/cn of them in Ihe larrltory. The Mexicans are supocstitioiis about him and regard Ms appearance aan evil omen. An eminent Presbyterian divine An nounced to his congregation that ho must take u vae.itlon on account of bronchitis , the elders raised his salary and gave him Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. Ho was curoil. My daughter suffered greatly with neu ralgia in the face and forehead and wns unable to secure any relief. I saw Sal vation Oil advertised , sent for a bottle and ono application gave entire relief. J. S. McO\ui.LKvt 1'oliccman , Residence 204 N Bond at. , Ualto. , Md. A nio MOVI : . Tlio n. Vr M , tictH Ho/ivy Cnntrncta for an Alillnc Koutu to tlio Northwest. While an endless number of tallronda [ on paper ) are being constructed to the northwest , it develops that the U. vV M , lias set uuletly to work and Is now build ing an air line into the rich northwest of Nebraska. For various reasons the B , & M. officials have kept the matter very quiet , pioferring to work silently and unostentatiously to making a loud talk about uncertainties which may never de velop. Beyond the filing of various ar ticles of incorporation , which , being placed on record at different times were disconnected and meant little or nothing , absolutely nothing of this great schema has been brought to the pubiio notice. It is now absolutely certain that Omaha will have her de- desired road to the northwest before tha end of the present year. More than that work on the road has already commenced. A prominent railroad man outlined thu scchomo to n reporter for the BKI : yester day It is this : The B. & M. has let a con- ractjto Mallory & Gushing , the well know railroad builders , to build -100 miles of road from Central City to the noi ( Invest. This line will run from Central City , through Morrick , Howard , Grcolcy Wheeler , Garlield , Brown and Iveya Palm counties. This brings tlio line lethe the northern tier of the Nebraska counties , and from this point it is said the B. & M. will soon push its line into the rich Black Hills country. The southern terminus of tins North western line , as already mentioned , is Central City. Now there is : i line from Central City ta Aurora , Neb , , on the Grand Island branch of the B. fc M. So that as soon as the Northwestern branch is constructed from Central City to Koya Paha county , Omaha will have practical connection with the northwest , via the B. & M. , though it is true the route is a tritlo circuitous. But the B. & M. is al ready preparing to obviate this and give Omaha an air line connection with the rich Northwestern country. "The scheme is simply this , " said the BCK'.S informant. "Tho B. A : M. has already hit the con tract for a branch from \Vuhoo to Schuylcr. Then the linii from Wahoo to Ashland will soon be ready , whereupon , as you can sec by referring to the map , the B. & M. will have a direct line from Omaha to Schuylcr. From that point a line will bo run to Cedy City , Nob. , the midway point of the Northwestern line from Central City to Koya Paha county. This once completed Omaha will have her air line to the Northwest , running through Douglas , Saruy , Saunders , Butler.Colfar , IMalte , Boone , Wheeler , Garficld and Blown counties. " Messrs. Mallory and Cii ° hing liavo commenced worK at Cedar City , llio mid way point on the northwestern line , and will grade and construct track both ways. Fifteen hundred teams , with a proportionate tionate number ot men , are at work al ready and this force will .soon bo in creased to 2,000. , The contractors are re quired to complete 300 miles of the track this year , and may complete 400. And thus Omaha's boom boometh ! M-.11UASKA. UKNrilU. 1'OINIT.IIS Knowing ones assert that the depot of the Nebraska Central road will bo located about Fourteenth and Cass streota. Tlio work of serving notices upon the owners of the property condemned for tlio road is being carried on rapidly. James Way is chief engineer of the new road. Surveying parties are busily engaged at the different points along the proposed route. Vain Accumulations. A'cic VoiA H'orM. The art collection of A. T. Stewart has gone the way of his other accumulations. The immense business which lie built up with rare sagacity and energy has dis appeared. His whole fortune , indeed , is broKcn up in fragments. It is compara tively few years since he died , and yet notwithstanding his remarkable career his obliteration is almost complete. It will not bo very long boforoitwill bedilli- cult to find any trace -of him , unless the institution at Garden City bo the single exception. Rarely has the vanity of mere accumu lation been more strikingly illustrated. How much that ho labored to get to gether is being put to the use that a wise man would have had it put to ? His property is distributed anionir people whom ho never had the slightest idea of exerting himself for. Nor was there any reason why he should have cared to leave more than a comfoi table provision for his widow , unless ho had con templated charity. What a differ ence between his lecord and those of other childless men who can readily bo named I Stephen Girard , Johns Hopkins , George Peabody , Samuel J.Tilden ( .if his intentions aru not thwarted ) are examples of successful lives , becausu they left them well rounded bv the spirit of true humanity. George W. Childs chooses to enjoy the luxury of charitable- deeds us he goes thiough life , and in this policy he is a long way ahead of many foi lunate men in realizing on his success. if Stewart had bequeathed his palace for a picture gallery and loft Ins works of ail in it for the good of the public , he would have done something , at least , to vindicate his extraordinary money-get ting. As it is , there is neither rh niu nor reason in it. It is as objectless as that of a miser , and all that he has built falls hopelessly to pieces now that he is deml. But thcro is a moral left I ) } tlio dispersion of the grcal estate , and it lefer-i to tlio folly ot purposeless and useless accumu lation. Color ol C.inniiuo. All the Year Around : With rcgiud to the yellow color of the canary bird , and its testimony to Mi DanvinV * theory it 1st said that after domestication in Belgium , GUI many and England , ( a point with which temperature or climate may have had oinetliing to do , ) life birds tluew upon the leatheis small patches of follow of lighter color , mid by eaiefully mulching these birds that had the largest number of thiiio patches the bleeders at length , and afier a considerabh ; period , succeeded in obtaining a bright and urn form jollow color , more clo'eh if-em- bllng what are called tha "cleai" birds of to day. Mul the application of the phra'-o ' "canary color , " to indicate a special hludo of yellow , though geiierul , is not justified by the facts. Canaries of puiu breed are to Lo found of many color * . Whole breeds are green ; and by feeding on popper and other seeds , canaries liavu been produced of cinnamon and cofFee color , and even of lot ) ; and , in the Li7/urd variety , the bird , lliough yellow in the crown , is olsmvhoro .shaded and spangled in llio mosl lovely manner. Iln WAN u Hard Worker. Concord ( N. 11. ) Monitor. A Concord gentleman rolatns the following inUiresl- ing anecdote : "During tins war of thu robullion , while I was in chargu of tele graphing In Bo'-ton , I went to Govuinor AinlriiwH1 house about midnight ono night with an important muasage. To my statement of my errand thogovunor'H good wife answered : 'You will nlwnMt Imd the governor at his office nt the st-a'to house until 'J in the morning. ' And we always did. "
